My Warhammer Thread

[Commodore]

and the whole "siege army" appealed to me for Iron Warriors

I'm kinda partial to siege armies as well. I'd buy a Death Korps army (the Imperial Guard's seige army) if they weren't so insanely expensive. They come from Forgeworld so their models cost at least double what models from Games Workshop proper cost.

Warhammer 40k would make a good setting for an RPG, either tabletop or PC. It's got decades of developed lore and artwork; it has myriad factions and sub-factions that can be adversaries, competitors, or allies of convenience; various types of locations; a wide variety of equipment for players to use; and it's built for nonstop violence, which is really the only type of character interaction that RPG design has truly nailed, imo, so the game design wouldn't need to be innovative, just solid, and the basic narrative would be easy for players to grasp.

I also wouldn't mind seeing a 40k total conversion mod for X-COM 2. I liked Dawn of War, but for some reason DoW2 didn't grab me like X-COM 2 did. I'm not sure why. I never played DoW3.

Well you're in luck because both of those exist on PC. For an RPG, you might want to look into Inquisitor: Martyr. It's a Diablo 3-esque action RPG where you play as an Inquisitor.

For a game that plays like XCOM, there is Mechanicus. I haven't played it yet, but it has very good reviews on Steam. You play as an Adeptus Mechanicus expedition raiding a Necron tombworld to steal their shiny technology. From what I've seen it plays a lot like XCOM.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I never played DoW3.

I love DoW and DoW2.

DoW3 is not worth your time.

 

[PhroX]

I used to play a lot of 40k but a combination of burnout and the god awful 6th edition rules led to me stepping away from it and instead discovering MTG as a alternative way of spending far too much money. Played a bit of Fantasy, but never got into it the way I did 40k. Also loved Battlefleet Gothic, which I still rate as GW's best tabletop game, but sadly not that many people in my playgroups got into it, so getting games could be hard.

Space Wolves were my main army, but I had decent sized Tau and Guard forces too. Was never much of a painter - I enjoyed building models and playing the game, but never had the skill or patience to do anything more than a quick spray coat of the base colour and a few bits of detail.

Regarding RPGs, there's a whole series of tabletop ones published by, IIRC, Fantasy Flight. Same basic rules systems but different themes and settings within the 40k universe. Dark Heresy was the best from what I remember, in no small part due to the relatively small scale of it. The party are an Inquistor's henchmen basically, so you're limited to relatively normal (by 40k standards...) humans investigating, well, heresy, compared to Rogue Trader (you're the captain and officers of a kilometers long spaceship), or the Chaos and Space Marine ones I forget the names of where you play as a servant of the dark gods and a genetically modified superman respectively....

 

[Commodore]

While I'm painting I listen to 40k themed music. My favorite 40k musician by far is stringstorm. Here are two of my favorite 40k songs by him:

 

[The_J]

There's a death metal band, which does appropriately themed music, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debauchery_(band) , in case someone wants to have a look at them.
Not sure if I should link any songs, might be against the rules .

 

[EgonSpengler]

I was browsing some 40k stuff and misread "Blood Angel Assault Squad" as "Blood Sausage Squad." Now I have to play Blood Angels, just so I can call them Blood Sausages.

 

[Commodore]

I was browsing some 40k stuff and misread "Blood Angel Assault Squad" as "Blood Sausage Squad." Now I have to play Blood Angels, just so I can call them Blood Sausages.

The cool thing about 40k is you could make your own homebrew chapter called the Blood Sausages and it would be totally legit in terms of lore.

 

[thecrazyscot]

Sounds like a Khornish cult...heretic

 

[EgonSpengler]

Blood sausage for the blood sausage god?

 

[GenMarshall]

I'm more into the lore than the tabletop mechanics of the game.

 

[Commodore]

I'm more into the lore than the tabletop mechanics of the game.

I'm mostly in it for the lore as well. I play the tabletop game just so I can kinda "live the lore". The group I play with are all like that, which is why we aren't sticklers about the rules and even modify them to match what we think is the most fun way to play.

Blood sausage for the blood sausage god?

"I feel the blood sausage overtaking me! It is a good pain."

I get the feeling all this is going to lead to CFC collectively creating the Blood Sausages chaos warband now.

 

[GenMarshall]

I'm mostly in it for the lore as well. I play the tabletop game just so I can kinda "live the lore". The group I play with are all like that, which is why we aren't sticklers about the rules and even modify them to match what we think is the most fun way to play.

Oh boy, with my unique fondness with crossovers. I'd be that guy with warships from the Galatic Empire and Starbattleship Yamato, equipment and small arms from Star Wars, Halo, Fallout, and Starcraft and races from WoW (night elves, blood elves, and high elves with humans). I'd be the faction the Imperium of Man would overdose on saying heresy .

"I feel the blood sausage overtaking me! It is a good pain."

I get the feeling all this is going to lead to CFC collectively creating the Blood Sausages chaos warband now.

Me when playing as a blood elf in WoW and CFCers create the Blood Sausage Chapter:

 

[Ajidica]

I'm kinda partial to siege armies as well. I'd buy a Death Korps army (the Imperial Guard's seige army) if they weren't so insanely expensive. They come from Forgeworld so their models cost at least double what models from Games Workshop proper cost.

That's one thing I liked about Warhammer Historical. Nobody has copyright on making models of "Byzantine Cataphracts" or "Frankish Bowmen".

Related, do you have to have Games Workshop produced models to compete in tournaments, or could you show up with an army of generic futuristic infantry and claim it is a detachment from the hithero-unknown Insumptuosus* Sector?

*Google translate tells me that is Latin for inexpensive.

 

[Commodore]

Related, do you have to have Games Workshop produced models to compete in tournaments, or could you show up with an army of generic futuristic infantry and claim it is a detachment from the hithero-unknown Insumptuosus* Sector

For tournaments, they do allow for some generic or third party models, but it's a very low percentage, like only 10% of your army can be non-GW models. That's why I'm not a tournament player, they are too stuffy on things like that. I understand it though since the tournaments are essentially marketing events for Games Workshop so they want their stuff to be on display.

Oh boy, with my unique fondness with crossovers. I'd be that guy with warships from the Galatic Empire and Starbattleship Yamato, equipment and small arms from Star Wars, Halo, Fallout, and Starcraft and races from WoW (night elves, blood elves, and high elves with humans). I'd be the faction the Imperium of Man would overdose on saying heresy

And the weird thing is you could find a justification in the lore for all of that. The openendedness of the 40k setting allows for so much creative expression, which is what I think contributes to its consistently rising popularity over the years. You can take almost any concept and find some way to turn it into an army in 40k.

 

[Ajidica]

And the weird thing is you could find a justification in the lore for all of that. The openendedness of the 40k setting allows for so much creative expression, which is what I think contributes to its consistently rising popularity over the years. You can take almost any concept and find some way to turn it into an army in 40k

Wasn't the movie Event Horizon adopted as being de facto canon in 40k?

 

[PhroX]

It certainly could've changed since but back when I used to play, GW run tournaments were awful. The rules enforcement was basically whatever the judge felt like (as opposed to what the rulebooks said...) and they had this weird idea called "Army Composition" whereby your opponents rated your army and this counted towards your overall tournament ranking. So basically, some salty guy who you beat would give you a low grade because you played with "a cheesy army that doesn't fit the lore" (even when it did fit the lore - for example a Space Marine army deploying multiple Tactical Squads in Rhinos is bad because apparently transports are cheesy and using more than one of the same unit is cheesy and therefore it doesn't match the lore and is bad and you are bad for playing it. Yes, really, people would say this.) meaning that even though you win all your games in an elimination format, you don't finish first.

Community run tournaments, either with clubs, or at non-GW games stores, tended to be much better though, and they would usually be far more open to people using non-GW models.

 

[Commodore]

Wasn't the movie Event Horizon adopted as being de facto canon in 40k?

Yeah, by the fans. This is supposedly because either the director or one of the writers for the movie said they were inspired by 40k. I've never actually seen any comments like that, but the 40k community ran with it and decided Event Horizon was a prequel to 40k and showcased the results of humanity's first attempt at traveling through the warp.

 

[Commodore]

It's the weekend again, so I'll finally get some time to sit down and paint some more once I get off work. So expect more pics of my Valhallans soon.

I've also been kicking around the idea of trying to do a painting challenge that's been kicking around the Warhammer community recently. The challenge is you get an army of unpainted miniatures and you don't go to sleep until the entire army is painted. I think the longest I saw someone go was 36 hours.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Someone used the sound files from Dawn of War: Winter Assault to make an hour-long "ambience" track for playing 40k.

This one's kinda spooky: A Necron invasion of an Imperial city. Has kind of a War of the Worlds vibe.

 

[Commodore]

Decided to take a break from the Valhallans and work on my homebrew regiment the 4th Hudsonian Black Knights.

This is 1st Platoon/Blackhawk Company's command squad that serves as the personal body guard of Lieutenant Marcone (not in the picture).